Common Suffixes: Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -er, -or

This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "one who; action or process."
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  1. admirer
    someone who esteems or respects or approves
  2. announcer
    someone who proclaims a message publicly
  3. attacker
    someone who attacks
  4. believer
    a supporter who accepts something as true
  5. colonizer
    someone who helps to found a colony
  6. conductor
    the person who leads a musical group
  7. consumer
    a person who uses goods or services
  8. contractor
    someone who is hired to build things
  9. counselor
    someone who gives advice about problems
  10. creator
    a person who grows or makes or invents things
  11. decorator
    someone who decorates
  12. defender
    a person who cares for persons or property
  13. director
    someone who manages an organization
  14. employer
    a person or firm that hires workers
  15. governor
    the head of a state authority
  16. instructor
    a person whose occupation is teaching
  17. inventor
    someone who is the first to think of or make something
  18. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  19. prisoner
    a person who is confined
  20. reporter
    a person who investigates or communicates news stories
  21. sculptor
    an artist who creates three-dimensional artwork
  22. speaker
    someone who expresses in language
  23. survivor
    one who lives through affliction
  24. traveler
    a person who changes location
  25. trespasser
    someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
  26. visitor
    someone who visits
  27. writer
    a person who is able to write and has written something
Created on Fri May 03 15:01:20 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Jul 26 16:17:45 EDT 2024)

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